In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines li
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English Pages 341 pages Year 1978;2012
Table of contents :
The doomed in their sinking --
Malcolm Lowry --
Wisconsin death trip --
Mr. Blotner, Mr. Feaster, and Mr. Faulkner --
Gertrude Stein and the geography of the sentence --
Three photos of Colette --
Proust at 100 --
Paul Valéry --
Sartre on theater --
Upright among staring fish --
The anatomy of mind --
Food and beast language --
Groping for trouts --
Carrots, noses, snow, rose, roses --
The ontology of the sentence, or How to make a world of words.